Monday, May 12th, 2025 Posted by Jim Thacker Tutorial: Hard-Surface 3D/VR Mech Design html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" The Gnomon Workshop has released Hard-Surface 3D/VR Mech Design, a guide to concept sculpting in Substance 3D Modeler, recorded by Visual Development Artist Corey Gooch. The beginner-friendly workshop provides seven and a half hours of video training, primarily in Substance 3D Modeler, Adobe’s desktop and virtual reality sculpting software. Discover a virtual reality workflow for designing and sculpting a mech In the workshop, Gooch explores how to design and sculpt an autonomous mech in VR. He begins by introducing Substance 3D Modeler, exploring its VR sculpting tools and setting out techniques for creating organic and mechanical forms. He also discusses how to balance form and functionality, and strategies for placing key design features. Gooch then switches to ZBrush to optimize the model for rigging and texturing, and adding fine details that cannot currently be created in VR alone. In the final part of the workshop, he moves to Blender to provide a brief high-level overview of the process of rigging, texturing, animating, and preparing models for 3D printing. As well as his technical workflow, Gooch shares his artistic decision-making process, which focuses on functionality and effective problem-solving. Viewers of the workshop can download project files including the Substance 3D Modeler .smod file for the raw sculpt, and Corey Gooch’s ZBrush .cfg file. About the artist Corey Gooch is a Visual Development Artist and 3D Specialist at Studio Artilus. A freelance concept designer and 3D generalist with a background in both aviation and illustration, he enjoys offering private mentorships to other artists. Pricing and availability Hard-Surface 3D/VR Mech Design is available via a subscription to The Gnomon Workshop, which provides access to over 300 tutorials. Subscriptions cost $57/month or $519/year. Free trials are available. Read more about Hard-Surface 3D/VR Mech Design on The Gnomon Workshop’s website Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects. Full disclosure: CG Channel is owned by Gnomon. Latest News Sketchsoft releases Feather 1.2 Promising 3D sketching app for iPad gets new AR Viewer, making it possible to see designs in augmented reality. Monday, May 12th, 2025 Tutorial: Hard-Surface 3D/VR Mech Design Discover how to sculpt a mech in virtual reality with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly Substance 3D Modeler tutorial. Monday, May 12th, 2025 Smart Model Editor lets you model non-destructively in Maya Özgür Yildirim's interesting plugin records the changes made to a model over time, then lets you edit or delete operations individually. Friday, May 9th, 2025 Been laid off? JangaFX is giving you its tools free for six months Real-time tools developer is offering temporary licenses of EmberGen, LiquiGen and GeoGen to games and VFX artists who are between jobs. Friday, May 9th, 2025 How PFX created a continuous 3.5-minute VFX shot for Locked Key shot from the carjacking thriller was created using 3DEqualizer, Houdini and Nuke from 360-degree footage and Lidar scans. Thursday, May 8th, 2025 Free tool: Mesh Cleaner 2 for Blender VFX artist Rob Dickinson's handy add-on fixes artefacts in 3D scans and models in one click. Check out the new features in version 2.0. Thursday, May 8th, 2025 More News Sébastien Deguy launches puppetry firm Sans Strings Studio Get 110+ modular dungeon assets and props for Unreal Engine Review: HP Z4 Rack G5 rackmount workstation Get 260+ free 3D scanned assets for building a ruined interior in UE5 SPECviewperf 15 adds Blender and UE5 tests to the benchmark Download Figment's free UDIM Globe toolset Free tool: Lens Cap 2 for Blender Boris FX adds AI-powered masking to Sapphire 2025.5 Nevercenter releases Silo 2025.1 and Milo 2025.0 Open Brush 2.10 adds 'multiplayer' VR painting Lumion releases Lumion 2025.0 Lumion releases Lumion View for SketchUp Older Posts